Seven years ago, Leeland Eisenberg became a national headline after taking hostages at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester. Since that incident, he has been in and out of prison, and next week, he is eligible to be released again.

In November 2007, Eisenberg took hostages at the Clinton campaign office in Rochester using a fake bomb. After he was arrested, Eisenberg said he was a desperate man who wanted attention for his mental health issues.

"I think about (that incident) all the time," Eisenberg said. "I pray for the victims I held there against their will."

Eisenberg, 53, is getting the care he wanted in the Secure Psychiatric Unit of the state prison in Concord.

"There's a great difference in me today," he said. "I'm a much safer person for myself, for the community. I don't pose the same risk I once did."

Eisenberg said the health care he gets in prison works. He takes regular antipsychotic medications for bipolar disorder and received regular counseling.

But he's now eligible for parole, and he said that could be a problem. He said it's not easy to find mental health care on the outside,

"It puts me right back in the same place I was before the Clinton incident, exactly like it," he said.

Eisenberg has a bad track record. After he was incarcerated for two years, he was released, but he failed to use his ankle bracelet properly and was sent back.

In 2010, he cut off his bracelet and was again arrested. In 2013, he walked away from a Manchester halfway house. He said it was because his medication ran out.

"After a month without my medications, I became psychotic and delusional," he said.

Again, Eisenberg went back to prison. Faced with freedom, he said he fears losing a stable supply of medication and claims authorities denied him Section 8 for a private apartment.

"It's been pretty frustrating so far with the response I'm getting or lack of response I'm getting," he said.

Assistant Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks said parolees such as Eisenberg are offered a few weeks of medication and outside assistance to find proper housing.

"We have social workers, case managers working with each client," she said. "We've centralized to better work with them to pre-apply for insurance."

Hanks said felons can apply for Medicaid and other programs that provide medication at low or no cost. Inmates can be linked up with a mental health care provider in their community.

But so far, Eisenberg said that plan has not come together for him.

Eisenberg said it's unlikely he will find supportive housing he needs by his Oct. 20 release date. In that case, he would stay behind bars until he does.